On 09/01/2012 13:16, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Chow Loong Jin wrote: >>> Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running >>> LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores >>> and processors simultaneously. Its primary goal is to utilize all >>> resources to speed up compression time with minimal possible influence >>> on compression ratio. >> >> Ooh, parallel xz compression sounds really awesome. I wonder if the >> generated xz >> compressed files can be xdelta'd by pristine-tar, though. > > Good question. Not sure if pristine-tar supports xz already at all.
I thought it did, but upon closer inspection, it looks like pristine-tar has been generating deltas for banshee's xz tarballs from ftp.gnome.org larger than the original tarballs themselves. > [...] -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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